Insurance News
(6/18/2013)
The Federal Insurance Office (FIO) and the Treasury Department should show deference to state insurance regulators in certain regulatory forums, according to Be...
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(6/18/2013)
One day before the director of the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) testified before Congress, the FIO released one of many congressionally mandated reports that ...
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(6/18/2013)
PIA is hailing a bill just introduced in Congress that provides that certain compensation for agents and brokers is exempt from the calculation of the allowable...
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(6/18/2013)
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has announced the formation of Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance, a commercial property/casualty group that is headed b...
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(6/18/2013)
American International Group Inc. and General Motors Co. rejoined Standard & Poor’s S&P 500 index last Thursday, marking a key milestone in the recovery of tw...
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(6/18/2013)
A PIA agent who is a veteran of Hurricane Katrina advised PIA agents who are veterans of Superstorm Sandy that with all the stress surrounding catastrophes, age...
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(6/12/2013)
PIA National President Andy Harris addressed a meeting of the board of PIA of New Jersey on Monday, June 10...
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(6/12/2013)
According to a USA Today poll, three out of four Americans plan to vacation at least 100 miles from home this year, and many of those trips will undoubtedly inv...
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(6/12/2013)
Oregon Insurance Commissioner Lou Savage is stepping down to undertake democracy-building initiatives in Tunisia...
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(6/12/2013)
Roger Sevigny has been confirmed for a new five-year term as New Hampshire’s insurance commissioner by the state Executive Council...
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(6/12/2013)
PIA National has announced that nominations are being accepted now through July 12, 2013 for four prestigious national awards: The Company Award of Excellence, ...
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(6/05/2013)
Staff of the House Financial Services Committee tells PIA they plan to continue to pressure the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) to release a series of long-overd...
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(6/05/2013)
The Massachusetts Division of Insurance reports it is studying insurance claims arising from the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings to better understand the clai...
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(6/05/2013)
Below is a list of the Issues Updates reports that have been updated as of June 1, 2013...
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(6/05/2013)
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has appointed Julia Rathgeber to succeed Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman, whose last day on the job was May 27...
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(6/05/2013)
As agents, we are required to negotiate frequently as a natural course of doing business...
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(6/05/2013)
PIA National has announced that nominations are being accepted now through July 12, 2013 for four prestigious national awards: The Company Award of Excellence, ...
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(6/05/2013)
The Associated Press reports that the longest word in the German-language dictionary is the word for automobile liability insurance...
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(5/29/2013)
The disaster modeling company Risk Management Solutions Inc. (RMS) estimates that the tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20 caused between $2 billion a...
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(5/29/2013)
PIA National issued a press release on May 24 that had two purposes: (1) to educate the public about post-disaster claims filing; and (2) to make the point that...
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